Vietnamese woman missing
in Korea ferry disaster, daughter saved
A photo of Kwon Ji-yeon, who was rescued from the sunk South
Korean ferry, was circulated on Twitter to find her relatives. Her Vietnamese
mother, Korean father, and six-year-old brother are still missing.
A
five-year-old girl was rescued Friday from the sunken Korean yacht but the
rest of her family, including her Vietnamese mother, are still missing as the
death toll mounted to 56.
The family of the 29-year-old
mother, Phan Ngoc Thach, from
Duong Chinh Chuc, a counselor at the
embassy, said some embassy officials have been sent to Jindo port to assist
Thanh’s family.
Officials from the embassy and
Korea's foreign and gender equality and family ministries received them
at the airport and took them to the site of the accident around 700
kilometers from Seoul.
Surviving passengers and police
officers rescued Thanh’s daughter Kwon Ji-yeon Wednesday soon after the ferry
sank.
Nurses dispatched to the site and
others used social networks to find her extended family, and she is now with
her father’s sister and mother.
Thanh and her husband Han Yun Ji
were moving with the girl and six-year-old son to settle in Jeju, where Han
used to live.
The Korea Times said the father had
planned to quit the urban rat race and become a farmer, growing tangerine on
Jeju.
The ferry had their moving truck
filled with furniture.
It quoted nurses at
“Mother and brother put a life
jacket on me and pushed me up” has been her only comment so far.
A passenger identified only as Kim
said he spotted the girl alone in a cabin and he and three other men passed
her to each other as they struggled to climb up the tilted ferry.
Chuc said Thanh, one of more than
60,000 Vietnamese women living in
According to the latest information,
246 out of the 476 passengers, mostly high school children on a holiday trip,
are still missing.
The vessel is suspected to have hit
underwater reefs.
Its captain Lee Joon-Seok and two of
his crew were arrested Saturday.
Yonhap news agency said Lee, who
handed the helm to his third officer before the accident happened and
abandoned the ferry when it sank, faces five charges ranging from criminal
negligence to violation of maritime law.
The Maritime Ministry said the
vessel made a sharp turn before sending its first distress signal.
Some experts believe the turn could
have dislodged heavy cargo and destabilized the vessel, while others
suggested the turn might have been caused by a collision with an underwater
object like a rock.
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Chủ Nhật, 20 tháng 4, 2014
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